Includes bibliographical references and index

1. A butcher's son : Gleichen and beyond -- 2. The should-have-been : Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas -- 3. The death of HBOG : Dome Petroleum -- 4. Taking it on the chin : Home Oil and Hiram Walker Resources -- 5. Running with the Reichmanns : Interhome Energy and Interprovincial Pipe Line -- 6. Out of the shambles : NOVA Corporation -- 7. The urge to merge : TransCanada Corporation -- 8. High finances : Manulife and CIBC -- 9. Shaking up the corporation : TransAlta and Crestar Energy -- 10. Clear-cut : MacMillan Bloedel -- 11. The best of show : Alberta Energy, PanCanadian Energy, and EnCana -- 12. Digging for a deal : Fording Canadian Coal Trust -- 13. The companies that did : Northern Tigers -- 14. Doing the right thing : the ethics of business -- 15. Homecoming : the case for private philanthropy

Northern Tigers : Building Ethical Canadian Corporate Champions is both a memoir by one of the most broadly experienced executives in Canadian business history and a personal manifesto from one of our most outspoken corporate leaders on the issues of business ethics and private philanthropy. Northern Tigers makes a compelling case for building great Canadian-run corporations that can compete in the international arena. But, he argues eloquently, they must be "great" not only in size and strength but also in their high ethical standards, good corporate governance, and in their open-hearted support of their communities in which they operate. In this book, co-written with veteran business author Paul Grescoe, Dick Haskayne filters all of his hard-won wisdom through the lens of his impressive life's work

320 pages ; 24 cm

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